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cember 16, 1842, in the city of New Orleans,
and was left a half orphan at two
years of age. In 1856 his mother removed
to Connecticut and made her home in
Wethersfield, where she died April 8,
1869. Mr. Anderson was educated in the
public schools, early engaged in agricul-
ture, and has been most of his life located
on the farm where he now lives in Weth-
ersfield. A part of it was long in the
Welles family with which Mr. Anderson's
mother was connected. His estate embraces
one hundred and forty acres, one
of the largest farms in the section, a por-
tion of it having formerly belonged to the
Warner family. Mr. Anderson has long
been active in the promotion of the inter-
ests of Wethersfield, has served as selectman,
and is a senior warden of Trinity
Episcopal Church of Wethersfield. Polit-
ically a Democrat, he has usually sup-
ported his party, but did not accept the
financial theories of William Jennings
Bryan and did not support him for the
presidency.
He married, October 5, 1887, Minnie
Jane Case, who was born February 14,
i860, in Hartford, daughter of Julius
Alonzo and Jennie (Crosby) Case, descended
from one of the oldest Connecticut
families, founded by John Case, who
was born in England and came in the ship
"Dorset" from Gravesend, England, September
3, 1635, his age being then nine-
teen years. The name is a very ancient
one in England and is thought to have
been derived from an Anglo-Norman
word, meaning "hazard." The more rea-
sonable derivation, however, is from the
latin word "casa," meaning a house or
cottage. The name appears in the Hun-
dred Rolls of England in the thirteenth
century. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are the
parents of the following children: 1.
Gertrude, born September 28, 1888, a
graduate of the Hartford High School, a
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gifted teacher, now employed at the
Northeast School of Hartford and very
much in love with her work. 2. William
Case, born February 3, 1891, graduated
from the Wethersfield High School, and
is now associated with Allyn, Hall &
Company, of Boston, leading interior
decorators ; he married Edna Louise Hart
and has a daughter, Barbara Hart Ander-
son, born April 27, 191 7. 3. James Welles,
born June 6, 1893, resides at home in
Wethersfield, and is manager of the
paternal farm. 4. Frank Edwards, born
January 17, 1896, was educated in the
Wethersfield High School, and is now
associated with the Scottish Union Insurance
Company of Hartford. 5. Malcomb
Treat, born February 1, 1903, graduated
from the South School of Hartford
in 1917. The Anderson residence on
Broad street is one of the best in the
town, surrounded by all the accessories of
a substantial New England home.
John Case settled in Hartford, but removed
soon to Maspeth Kills, now Newtown,
Long Island, in February, 1640. He
sold several pieces of property in Hartford
and vicinity, but returned to Connecticut
about 1656, and settled at Wind-
sor, where he received in 1667 a grant of
land in that part of the town now Simsbury.
In 1670 he was deputy to the General
Court, and again represented Simsbury
in 1674-75 and 1691. During King
Philip's War, Mr. Case took refuge with
his brothers in Newtown. His will, made
in 1700, shows that he owned seventeen
parcels of land, a corn mill and saw mill,
and his inventory shows that he was a
man of wealth for his day. He died February
21, 1704. His wife, Sarah, born
1636, died November 3, 1691, at Simsbury,
was the daughter of William and
Agnes Spencer, early settlers of Hart-
ford.
Their son, William Case, was born June